Our Personal Injury Successes

Our client, a passionate and successful musician, and his wife were enjoying the day. As they crossed the street, they were suddenly and violently struck by an SUV. Our client sustained significant injuries from the crash, including a Traumatic Brain Injury. The brain injury has impacted every aspect of his life, from being able to play music professionally to his relationships with his wife and family. The insurance company neglected to see the impact initially, offering $350,000. After filing a lawsuit and intensely advocating for our client’s right to Justice, our clients accepted a $3.5 million settlement.

Confidential v. Confidential Trucking Company

In early March of 2020, our client was struck from behind by a top 50 National trucking company.  Our client was driving on I-70 headed to a funeral.  Immediately, based on body cam footage and 911 calls, the trucker blamed our client for “cutting (sic) off” and “stopping short.”  Our client wasn’t sure of her injuries at the time and refused medical attention though she didn’t feel well. Her car was totaled.  When we initially got the case, we could tell our client was in some serious discomfort. She is a wonderful woman who is a wife, mother and grandmother.  She had just started a new job and could not keep up due to the pain.  Eventually, she was forced to quit her job to focus on her physical health.  As her treatment progressed, we began to see she needed some major surgeries.  In the middle of COVID, she needed a shoulder surgery and a neck surgery.  Fortunately, she was able to get them done, starting with the shoulder and then a multi-level replacement of discs in her neck.

During all of this, we pushed forward with the fault aspect of her case.  Our client had released her vehicle prior to hiring us so we needed to find it.  We needed the data off of it.  Alex tracked the car by the VIN and found in the bootheel of Missouri.  He got in touch with the new owners of the car and we arranged a download using our Bosch CDR that we own and utilize.  It showed exactly what we expected—our client was not swerving or stopping short.  She gradually came to a halt based on traffic and there was zero evidence of her cutting into the lane in front of the trucker.  The computer doesn’t lie.  We also obtained old employment records of our client which showed what a great and determined person she is.  We focused hard on those facts and kept the pressure on.

After aggressively litigating this case and sharing all of our info with the defense, they offered $1,000,000.  We rejected it outright.  After some back and forth, the case resolved for $2,950,000 for our client and her husband.

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Veal v. Kelam-Jury Verdict

A small business owner, our client worked hard to support his family. That was until a crashed terribly and unnaturally altered his life forever. Despite the efforts of the defense to blame him for the crash and say it was only worth $5,000, the jury saw through it. Read more in our July newsletter cover story.

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Brown V. Clifford-Jury Verdict

Our client was an active grandmother who gardened and practiced yoga until she was struck in a T-bone collision by a man pulling out of his driveway. She developed permanent chronic neck pain as a result from the crash. The defendant’s insurance company originally offered $14,937 to compensate for our client’s decreased quality of life, blaming the pain on her age. Read more in our January 2019 newsletter cover story.

Avalos v. Britt

A young father of six from O’Fallon, MO was victim to a head-on collision in St. Charles County. He was driving five of his six children home when a driver suffered a medical emergency, colliding into our client’s vehicle. Despite wearing a seatbelt, the force of the impact was so strong the father was thrown from the car. He pronounced dead at the scene, and two of his children suffered injuries. We fought hard for his widow and children, ultimately securing a multimillion-dollar settlement for the family.

Our client was rear-ended on the way to work on I-270. He fired his original lawyer and came to us two weeks later and looking for help. We recognized his injuries on his MRI and predicted he would need some sort of neck treatment to help him. He ended up getting a disc replaced in his cervical spine. We put together a life care plan based on his medical needs and records to show the future cost of the care he would need.